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UMBC Magazine: See The Challenge, Be The Change

Written by: Megan Hanks Mastrola. Modeled after a national program, UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program was established in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) in Fall 2016. Over the past six years, the program has expanded, drawing together students from various disciplines to address major challenges that the world is facing. Ranging from engineering better medicines and securing cyberspace. …

Posted: July 11, 2022

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Three UMBC juniors receive prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

Lea-Pearl Njei, biological sciences; Caly Ferguson, mechanical engineering; and Jariatu Kargbo, biological sciences, have each received the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for the 2025 – 2026...

Posted: May 9, 2025, 2:55 PM

Celebrating 30 years of the Linehan Artist Scholars Program

On May 2 and 3, the campus celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Linehan Artist Scholars Program with two days of festivities attended by dozens of alumni, current scholars, and incoming...

Posted: May 9, 2025, 8:23 AM

Maryland Energy Administration awards UMBC $1.2 million for solar panels and more

UMBC has received a $1.2 million solar energy grant from the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to support solar power installations on campus and other sustainability initiatives. The...

Posted: April 25, 2025, 4:33 PM

Kelley Bell, M.F.A ’06, brings a sense of play to the BMA with “Fantastic Village”

When associate professor of visual arts Kelley Bell thinks back to her childhood growing up in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C., she recalls fond memories of playing in her neighborhood...

Posted: April 25, 2025, 2:21 PM

Top 5 ways URCAD is a uniquely UMBC experience

UMBC’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) is returning for its 29th year on April 16. For nearly three decades, the annual showcase highlights the research, scholarship,...

Posted: April 9, 2025, 3:16 PM

UMBC’s Virtual Tandem Conversation project with German universities is changing the way students see Germany and the U.S.

During a recent trip to Normandy, France, UMBC student Rebecca Smith hopped over to Lüneburg, a historic town in northern Germany, to visit Gertrud Krause-Traudes, her partner in UMBC’s Virtual...

Posted: April 1, 2025, 11:26 AM

New scholarship offers Japanese high school students an admissions pathway to UMBC and increases Japanese opportunities on campus

As Sister States, Maryland and Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, (south of Tokyo) have collaborated in various initiatives in business, education, healthcare, and culture exchange programs since 1981,...

Posted: February 10, 2025, 10:24 AM

Meet a Retriever—Emmanuella Osei, public health and sociology junior and fearless leader

Meet Emmanuella Osei, a junior studying public health and sociology and the president of UMBC’s Public Health Council of Majors. She is passionate about health equity, public service, and...

Posted: February 3, 2025, 4:57 PM

Earl Brooks explores how Black musicians shape political and social discourse in debut book ‘On Rhetoric and Black Music’

On the surface, it may appear that there isn’t much of a connection between rapper Kendrick Lamar and abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But in his debut book, UMBC Assistant Professor of English and...

Posted: January 24, 2025, 3:03 PM

UMBC receives major recognition by ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge

UMBChas been recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) for innovative planning and efforts to encourage nonpartisan voter engagement in the 2024 election. In December, the...

Posted: December 20, 2024, 1:17 PM

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